Detailed Modeling

Hi, I am working (well at least trying) on creating a car for beamng in blender. I know how to model around a template in the background to create a shell like a car, but I have no Idea how to create an interior , engine , etc. How do you do that? I've looked at many tutorials, but all of them are just the outside of the car.

 

I would assume that it goes about the same way for the interior stuff, once you know the tools you can draw anything. I think that most modders from Rigs of Rods (another, similar game, of which all 4 beamng devs contributed to) would have no issues with poking through some of their creations to learn how all this stuff works. I'm not a very good artist, though, so most things I make turn out badly and I end up scrapping them.

 

Even though I don't model cars or really use blender my advice would be just to mess around, see if you can create very undetailed seats or dashboards and then try work off of that. Then try add even more detail or polygons. I made a very super cool in-depth drawing.

 

You should look at those parts and have a general idea of what they look like. Then learn blender to a point where templates are no longer needed for you to imagine something, and just model the engines, etc on what you know.
If you're modelling a real car, you should have no problem finding images of the interior but as for the engine and suspension, it doesn't really matter as much.

 

The outside is easy. All you need to do is build it around the blurprint that you have inserted, but It's much harder to do that with an engine.

 

I do have one question and this is probably the best place to ask it.

When modelling the mesh, for parts that are joined to the vehicle; door handles, boot clips etc. Should these be attached by merged vertices like this:



Or can it also work as two meshes intersecting and then joined as one object, like here:



I only ask because for more complex models such as the engine and dashboard attaching it with many vertices would be quite difficult, and wouldn't this also effect how the deformation works?

 

Thanks Gabe, that makes this a lot less effort and it fixed all the problems I was having with the normals

 

I have recently started to try and model an AE86. I hope it turns out right. I also have a small problem. I am trying to extrude the part of the hood i have done, but I find that there are TONS of extra points all in one area and it is stopping me from extruding the entire shape.

P.S. Is there a way to connect to selected points together?

 

Do you have some pictures to show us the model?

 

If you're using 3DS max then weld the vertices.

 

He's using blender (look at first post)

lucky74dog : You need to merge (or weld) the vertices by selecting 2 vertices or more, then hit Alt + M and select the appropriate merge.

(imported from here)

 

Regardless he probably realised that 'weld' in 3ds max is the same as blenders 'weld'.

 

Thank you, but that is not what I meant. I actually wanted to know if you could connect two points on a mesh with a line.

 

You can do that easily, select the two vertices you want a line to go across and press 'F'. It will fill it in with an edge.

 

Tom-hanks (thanks) otherwise known as Tom-hankyou